Whether you are a physical education teacher, volleyball coach, or parent looking for ways to help your players develop, solid volleyball training is essential. These activities can help students improve their overall performance and strengthen specific skills such as setting, passing, and serving. This list of drills is not only helpful for training and conditioning, but it's also a lot of fun!
elementary school volleyball training
1. Teaching mini volleyball for children ages 6 to 9
This modified and condensed version of volleyball is perfect for younger children.
2. Volleyball training for 10-12 years old
This training is suitable for promoting communication and coordination among upper elementary school students.
3. Elementary volleyball: Go
This helps children understand how to move quickly and effectively in different directions in limited space while catching and throwing the ball under the net.
4. Beginner Volleyball: Ball Handling
These videos highlight the motor, problem-solving and behavioral skills needed to handle a ball and include a variety of drills and games to practice with children.
5. Elementary Volleyball: Presentation
These videos provide games and activities to improve your presentation skills and also include assessments.
6. Beginner Volleyball Pass
This volleyball drill will help beginners learn their stance when catching and passing the ball.
Middle School and High School Volleyball Training
7. Improved passing in middle school volleyball players
This video shows a “butterfly” that encourages players to quickly learn how to dig the ball properly.
8. Dynamic exercise design and training
Make the most of your practice time with this video showing you how to incorporate a full arsenal of fast-paced drills into your high school practice plan.
9. “Hit the Deck” volleyball training
This drill shows how to put some pressure on your players at practice so they are better equipped come game day.
10. Competitive volleyball training for offense and defense
These drills improve a player's offensive efficiency and defensive competitiveness.
Volleyball training for beginners
11. Volleyball training for beginners
These drills are great for improving your reaction speed and readiness.
12. Overhand serve method for beginners
Overhand serving is a skill that takes time to learn, but this tutorial breaks it down into easy steps.
13. Best volleyball spiking drills for beginners
These step-by-step exercises will help beginners learn how to spike volleyball or how to spike harder with much more ball control.
14. 3 basic skills of volleyball
This helpful video covers serves, passes, and setups to help new volleyball players get started.
15. Shuffling Drill
This video explains how to practice proper volleyball footwork using shuffling drills.
volleyball warm up training
16. Volleyball: Warm-up and passing drills
This video provides tips on shuffling, passing shapes, locking drills, ball calming, and more.
17. Turn on the antenna
These drills give players the opportunity to practice a variety of volleyball techniques with the end goal being to hit the antenna after every “hole.”
18. High-intensity warm-up training
Enhance your typical warm-up routine with drills that focus on a goal-oriented, competitive attitude while your players learn how to prepare and compete in game situations.
19. Volleyball Burn Training
This may be one of the best volleyball warmups for defensive movement, eye movement, and volleyball IQ.
volleyball setting training
20. How to set up: Simplified skill settings
This comprehensive video covers burger hands, missile launcher locks, train track setup, and more!
21. Best setter volleyball drills
22. Training setup
23. How to become a better volleyball setter (ft. Rachael Adams of Team USA)
Team USA Olympic volleyball player Rachael Adams demonstrates proper hand position, some drills to improve your setup, and common mistakes to avoid.
volleyball passing training
24. The Ultimate Guide to Overhead Passing
This long, in-depth video provides over 20 tips and exercises you need to master the pass.
25. Partner training
This video covers partner passes, knee passes, passes and sprints, side-to-side passes, and shuffle passes under the net.
26. Pass basic skills and training
This drill covers basic passing techniques and footwork, with an emphasis on mid-stance stance, one-motion platform, and shuffle footwork.
27. How to pass volleyball
Learn the basics of volleyball passing with details on effective preparation positions, platforms, and passing movements.
28. Passing training for team practice
The volleyball drills in this video include “practicing passing from different parts of the court and specific tips on what to do on the left, center, and right side of the volleyball court.”
volleyball serving training
29. How to serve volleyball | Overhand Float Tutorial
This video provides step-by-step instructions for mastering the overhand serve using the float serve technique.
30. Serving progress training
This drill guides the serve progression to help break down each step of the serve and teaches athletes how to throw the ball in the right spot.
31. Serve the volleyball overhand over the net
There are several fundamental parts to a serve, and these drills will help you improve your overhand serve quickly!
32. Skills Development Training: Service
This video takes a comprehensive look at services and explains how to train your team to deliver services more efficiently and aggressively.
volleyball hitting training
33. John Dunning's discovery of the percussion drill
In this video, watch a hitting drill to help setters get the ball to the hitter, even if the initial pass isn't perfect.
34. 3-1 to 3 hitting drill
The training focuses on minimizing errors and working together as a cohesive team on offense.
35. L Percussion Drill
This video highlights the techniques needed to hit three different sets of these L drills.
36. Spike Method: Perfect Timing
Learn the four-step approach to spiking in this informative video.
volleyball conditioning training
37. How can volleyball players jump higher and faster?
This video focuses on developing reaction strength and why it is essential to getting off the ground faster.
38. 13 Best Ball Control Drills
In this video, we review exercises that are good for speed, agility, and coordination to improve ball control in volleyball players.
39. Volleyball agility and ball control training
In this video, we share volleyball exercises you can use to improve readiness, speed, agility, and ball control.
40. Anaerobic conditioning for volleyball players
Focusing on anaerobic conditioning, this video covers 10 effective conditioning drills for middle school and high school volleyball players.
41. The Ultimate Weekly Volleyball Training Plan | TRAIN LIKE A PRO
Learn more about how professional volleyball players train, including guidance on the amount and type of training you can get in a week.